The Depression Years

I have an older brother, he’s 78 now. Yes, he was in, he took charge of the farm, actually, when he was quite young.Interviewer: Tell me, what effect did the Depression have on your family? Well, the Depression had a lot to do, it had quite an effect on our family, too. But I must say that I can remember the Depression. I can remember it well. I knew it started about 1929, and as young as I was then, I knew that something had happened. Dad had to make a living, he had to keep this farm. We had a poor crop. He had about $200 to keep the family going that year. To keep the whole family going, that was quite a thing. Money was scarce, and you couldn’t buy anything for the farm, such as implements, nobody could afford them. The implements you had, you had to keep fixing them up. I can remember that, fixing these implements up.